Tuesday, January 20, 2009

President Barack Obama!


Finally-- Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States!

Read/Watch Obama's Inaugural Speech

We can now safely bookmark the White House Web Page

I particularly like the section on Civil Rights... Scroll down the page..

UPDATE:
After angry complaints about not airing (gay) Rev. Gene Robinson’s Invocation at the “We Are One” Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, and counter blaming between HBO and the Presidential Inaugural Committee, HBO has ADDED the full ceremony, including Robinson’s Invocation to the future broadcasts of the concert/celebration. You can view it online at:
http://www.hbo.com/weareone/
There will probably be a DVD and/or iTunes video soon which should also include the full ceremony...
(Maybe the Obama-haters in the gay community, mostly bitter Hillary supporters, who spread the lies about a Obama/HBO conspiracy to back stab the gay community will shut up and do some more constructive political organizing now..)

UPDATE:
All the commotion over who was praying at the inauguration events overshadowed the more fundamental issue of WHY religion and prayer are even part of a national public/civil event like the inauguration! Obama did at least mention the 15% or so of us who do NOT believe in any "god" at all, some Christianists were upset that Obama would question whether this was a Christian nation!

Greta has an atheist's perspective:
On Being an Atheist and Watching the Inauguration

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